Ali Akbar Moradi, from Kermanshah is the extraordinary tanbur player from Kurdistan of Iran. He has a unique style that sets him apart from other…
Artist Profiles: Ali Akbar Moradi
Tag: Iranian music
Artist Profiles: Ali Reza Analouei
Tombak master Ali Reza Analouei was born in Esfahan, Iran. His grandfather, Naser Ali was a renowned Master of Sufism (a worldview and way of…
Artist Profiles: Axiom of Choice
While the core sound of Axiom of Choice was based on the quarter-tone guitar, traditional Persian vocals, and various native percussion instruments, Axiom of Choice…
Urban Classical Music From Iran
Mehdi Rostami & Adib Rostami – Melodic Circles – Urban Classical Music From Iran (ARC Records EUCD2794, 2018) It is often said of traditional Iranian…
Artist Profiles: Hossein Omoumi
Hossein Omoumi was born in 1944 in Isfahan, Iran, and commenced his musical education singing with his father. At age 14, he studied the ney,…
Saeid Shanbehzadeh’s Pour-Afrigha at the Top of the Transglobal World Music Chart in November 2017
Pour-Afrigha, an album by Iranian musician Saeid Shanbehzadeh reached Number 1 this month at the Transglobal World Music Chart. Pour-Afrigha brings together Afro-Iranian and Baluchi…
Artist Profiles: Niyaz
Vas vocalist Azam Ali; Axiom of Choice’s multi-instrumentalist Loga Ramin Torkian; and producer/remixer Carmen Rizzo joined forces to create a globe-spanning sound that the trio…
Artist Profiles: Siamak Jahangiry
Siamak Jahangiry was born in 1971 in chaloos, in northern Iran. He started playing the ney at the age of 12. Jahangiry studied with Abdolnaghi…
Artist Profiles: Shams Ensemble
Iran’s renowned Shams Ensemble, influenced by Sufi, Kurdish and Persian classical music traditions, performs powerful rhythms and haunting melodic works incorporating the poetry of Mevlana…
Artist Profiles: Shahab Paranj
Shahab Paranj, born in Tehran, Iran in 1983, started playing the tombak as a child, encouraged by his father who was a santur player. He…